10th Annual LACLA Student Film Festival

10th Annual LACLA Student Film Festival

10th Annual LACLA Student Film Festival

LACLA invites middle, high school age students to participate in our 10th Annual Student Film Festival.

Films from the following schools will be showcased: Thomas Starr King Middle School, Lincoln High School, Mobile Classroom, Bell High School, CAL Arts CAP, Bell High School , Franklin High School - HPIFF After School Film Mentor Ship Program, Bresee Foundation, The Clubhouse @Expo Center, East Los Angeles Performing Arts Academy, Morgan McKinzie High School,VAPA School at the Legacy High School Complex, Franklin High School - HPIFF After School Film Mentor Ship Program", Downtown Magnet High School

Special Guests:

Mobile Film Classroom (MFC) is a 501(c)3 public charity with a production studio-on-wheels that travels throughout Los Angeles County to bring digital media instruction to at-risk and underserved youth. We provide access to technology that often cannot be found at school or at home. Our programs use digital media to engage students and provide them with the tools to become authors of their own stories. MFC will be present from 1pm -5pm during the festival

Monte Vista Street Elementary School students participate in the “Monte Vista Film Academy”. There are workshops on film history, media literacy, and film production. Through brainstorming exercises, close collaboration, extensive research and hands-on experience, students write and create their own films, from concept to final cut, using iPads. The culminating event is a screening of their work in the Monte Vista Film Festival, which is currently celebrating its 3rd year.

California State Univerity of Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts will be present at the festival informing future students in options for pursuing a career in filmmaking. They will be at the location starting at 1pm.

Sara was born and raised in Mexico. In 2005, Sara moved to NYC to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker, where she attended the New York Film Academy. After graduating, Sara worked in production, development, and post-production. Recently, she worked at Pearl Street Films under the wing of Jennifer Todd, as well as a Producer at Innocean Agency, all while writing and directing her own projects. She sold her first screenplay, PLAN V to "No Dancing Today", and participated in Film Independent’s Fast Track with her feature film “Falcon Lake” which also was awarded the Tribeca Film Institute’s TAA grant.

College Fair Coordinated by Marissa Hicks-Alcaraz

Food Sponsors - LA Baking, Two Boots Pizza Echo Park and Aguas Luchas

Best Picture: "WOKE" Directed by Hana, Alondra, Gavin from The Clubhouse @Expo Center